TY  - CHAP
T2  - Software Engineering for Collective Autonomic Systems. The ASCENS Approach
KW  - Autonomic Computing; Behavioral Adaptation; Requirements Engineering; Software Engineering; Linear-time Properties; Games
A1  - Bruni, Roberto
A1  - Corradini, Andrea
A1  - Gadducci, Fabio
A1  - Hölzl, Matthias
A1  - Lluch Lafuente, Alberto
A1  - Vandin, Andrea
A1  - Wirsing, Martin
UR  - http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-16310-9_4
Y1  - 2015///
PB  - Springer
ID  - eprints3064
EP  - 184
SP  - 163
TI  - Reconciling White-Box and Black-Box Perspectives on Behavioral Self-adaptation
N2  - This paper proposes to reconcile two perspectives on behavioral adaptation commonly taken at different stages of the engineering of autonomic computing systems. Requirements engineering activities often take a black-box perspective: A system is considered to be adaptive with respect to an environment whenever the system is able to satisfy its goals irrespectively of the environment perturbations. Modeling and programming engineering activities often take a white-box perspective: A system is equipped with suitable adaptation mechanisms and its behavior is classified as adaptive depending on whether the adaptation mechanisms are enacted or not. The proposed approach reconciles black- and white-box perspectives by proposing several notions of coherence between the adaptivity as observed by the two perspectives: These notions provide useful criteria for the system developer to assess and possibly modify the adaptation requirements, models and programs of an autonomic system.
T3  - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
AV  - none
SN  - 978-3-319-16309-3
ER  -